Google Safety Crawler Google Help Documentation

Nov 15, 2023 - 7:31 am 0 by
Filed Under Google

Lizzi Sassman Googlebot

Google has updated its help documentation specific to Google Crawlers and added the Google Safety crawler to the list of special case crawlers. This crawler is not new but Google decided to add it because they "received many questions" over the past year about this crawler.

Google Safety's crawler goes under the full user agent string of "Google-Safety."

The Google-Safety user agent handles abuse-specific crawling, such as malware discovery for publicly posted links on Google properties.

Google-Safety user agent ignores robots.txt rules.

Why does it ignore robots.txt? I assume because it has to check pages and directories that might not be safe in order to protect its searchers and users?

Forum discussion at X.

Image credit to Lizzi.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2025

Jan 17, 2025 - 10:00 am
Search Video Recaps

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility Cooling, AI Overviews Penalties, Maps Pin Hack Fix, Search Market Share & More

Jan 17, 2025 - 8:01 am
Google Ads

Scary Google Ads Phishing Scam

Jan 17, 2025 - 7:51 am
Google Ads

Google Ads Search Max Coming Soon?

Jan 17, 2025 - 7:41 am
Google Search Engine Optimization

Google Updates Examples Of Events & Estimated Salary Images In Structured Data Docs

Jan 17, 2025 - 7:31 am
Google

Google Testing AI Generated What People Are Saying

Jan 17, 2025 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Google Tests Northeast Arrow By Sitelinks